>Question that probably belongs in another section of the forum: If
>those Three are sisters, shouldn't they share the same surname?

Not necessarily - the Norns are older, in concept at least, than the whole surname thing, and Asgard doesn't generally stand on ceremony for that kind of thing. Last names in Asgard tend to be descriptive (Silverspear, Ironhammer, Lightwalker) rather than familial.

Corwin's last name is the same as his mother's because, knowing he would be raised in Midgard where that kind of thing is more common, Skuld gave it to him that way. Had he been raised in Asgard he could just has easily have been Corwin Gryphonsson, or Corwin Oakenstaff (he prefers to fight with an iron-shod wooden staff, similar to the one wielded by Yoshi in Giant Robo), or any number of other things.

Of course, just by coincidence, "Ravenhair" is just as descriptive for him as it is for his mother, so it works out anyway. If he'd come out brown-haired, things would have been awkward. :)

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